Creating & Profiling
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Here’s an extensive list of character traits. You can pick a couple or three to form the basis of a character. Then create a character with the opposite traits to form a friend, enemy, sibling, mentor … ? While there’s a great deal to be said about nature forming our characters, it’s a lot more interesting for a story if there’s a background reason! :-) So ask yourself why the character developed those traits.
Dragon Writing Prompts :: Character traits :: September :: 2007
NaNo Tips & Strategies Reference Desk Researching facts, figures, real world experiences and details.Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the car-pool lane? Why doesn't the hair on your arms grow as fast as the hair on your head? Can dolphins be trained to hunt torpedos?
Thirty Question Character Survey | National Novel Writing Month
Creating a character profile
When you get an idea for a short story or a novel you probably get the basic idea of the characters with it. But in order to build believable characters you need more than just a basic idea of them. You need to really them. The easiest way to flesh out a character is with a character profile, so get out a blank sheet of paper and follow the sample profile below.
Seven Common Character Types by Terry W. Ervin II Fiction writers employ a variety of characters while weaving their tales. Beyond the standard definitions of protagonist (the main character in a literary work) and antagonist (the main character or force that opposes the protagonist in a literary work), recognizing the types of characters and the parts they play while reading an interesting story can add to the experience.
Seven Common Character Types
How to Create a Character | How To's
by Holly Lisle All Rights Reserved No matter what sort of fiction you’re writing, you’re going to have to populate your story with characters, and a lot of them, if not all of them, you’re going to have to create from scratch. Unfortunately — or maybe fortunately — there is no Betty Crocker Instant Character-In-A-Can that you can mix with water and pop into the oven for twenty minutes. There aren’t any quick and easy recipes, and I don’t have one either, but I do have some things that have worked for me when creating my characters, and some things that haven’t.Character Building Workshop - Writers' Village University - Archetypal Characters
Brought to you by Writers' Village University Find out more about the Internet's leading online writers' group, and how you can join! The Character Building Workshop is an independent study of your characters using these online questionnaires. The process of filling out the forms will help you, the writer, learn about your characters on a more in-depth level. Once the questions have been answered, you will know more about the roles your characters play in your story. No longer will they be names on a page; they will become living, breathing beings as you continue writing your story.
The Character Interview as a Writing Tool
When writing a novel it is important to know your characters, and it makes life easier to get to know them early in your writing. There may be things in your character's past that you will not write in your book, but will still influence how the story plays out. One way to glean this information is to interview your characters and ask them some questions about their childhood, events or people who made an impact on their lives and their present circumstances. Ask all your characters these questions and let them answer in first person.
If you're a fiction writer -- whether you're working on a novel, short story, screenplay, television series, play, web series, webserial, or blog-based fiction -- your characters should come alive for your reader or audience. The highly detailed chart below will help writers develop fictional characters who are believable, captivating, and unique. Print this page to complete the form for each main character you create.
Character Chart for Fiction Writers - EpiGuide.com
Character Creation Made Easy, Pick a Personality-Method 6-MBTI Profiles | Learn to Write Fiction
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) offers another useful set of character profiles that you can use to jumpstart a character for your novel. There are sixteen different types. Let’s look at them: ISTJ – The Duty Fulfiller or Detective Characteristics: Quiet, cautious, meticulous, responsible, strong and silent type Good occupations: Administrators, inspectors, researchers Acronym: I Save Things Judiciously Half empty or half full? “It’s half empty now and it wouldn’t surprise me if it dried up completely.” Motto: “I do everything right”
It's time for another PEP rally by our guestblogger Sam. Just as a reminder, PEP stands for Productivity, Ego, and Procrastination, the three most important things to a writer after their computer or favorite pen. Even though the Rally was created to start a week off right, it can help combat the dreaded writers block any day of the week.
